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Object Number
995-29-10/73981
Display Title
White cotton boy's initiation kilt
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Kokom Vitkuna.
Object Description
White cotton boy's initiation kilt. Commercial cotton yarn is woven into a rectangle and then has been discolored to a dirty brown with a painted brown circle in two corners with a brown circle in the center. Two ends have very long cordage at the opposite from the corner that has the circle. Commercial cotton yarn and paint.
Ethnographcially used in a boy's initiation ceremony. Hopi name Kokom Vitkuna.
Inventory Description
Skirt panel, brown kilt
Classification
- Skirt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
early 20th century
Culture
- Transition Period
- Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Arizona
Materials
Cotton, Paint
Dimensions
Overall: 54.61 x 60.96 cm (21 1/2 x 24 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73981
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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